The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
BERNARD MALAMUDOne’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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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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