… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
BERNARD MALAMUDYou can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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 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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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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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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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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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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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