I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
BERNARD MALAMUDThose who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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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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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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