A man had to learn, it was his nature.
BERNARD MALAMUD(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to 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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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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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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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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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’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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