We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
BERNARD MALAMUDIf 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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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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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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You see in others who you are.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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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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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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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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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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