We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
BERNARD MALAMUDCharity you can give even when you haven’t got.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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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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One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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 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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