For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
BERNARD MALAMUDFirst drafts are for learning what your story is about.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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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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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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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 purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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