… 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 MALAMUD… 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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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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