A man had to learn, it was his nature.
BERNARD MALAMUDWriting is a mode of being. If I write I live.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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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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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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