The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
BERNARD MALAMUDIt’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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You see in others who you are.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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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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There 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.
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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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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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