No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
BERNARD MALAMUDNationality isn’t soul.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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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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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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You see in others who you are.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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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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First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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