You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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