When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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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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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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