How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
BERNARD MALAMUDThere are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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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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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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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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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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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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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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