The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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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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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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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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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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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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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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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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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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