Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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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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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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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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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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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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You see in others who you are.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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