The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
BERNARD MALAMUDWhen I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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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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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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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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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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(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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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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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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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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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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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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