We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
BERNARD MALAMUDIn my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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 short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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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One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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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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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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