Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
BERNARD MALAMUDWe didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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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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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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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 whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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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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