We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
BERNARD MALAMUDAll my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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