As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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You see in others who you are.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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