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.
BERNARD MALAMUDTeach yourself to work in uncertainty.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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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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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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You see in others who you are.
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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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