Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUDPrufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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You see in others who you are.
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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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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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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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