Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
BERNARD MALAMUDWe have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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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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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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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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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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