A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
BERNARD MALAMUDIn my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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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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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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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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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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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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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 can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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