In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
BERNARD MALAMUDWhat suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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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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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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