The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
BERNARD MALAMUDThere is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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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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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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 wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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