A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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 idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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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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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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