How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
BERNARD MALAMUDWhat suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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If 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.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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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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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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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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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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