Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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