It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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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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You see in others who you are.
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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 are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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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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