Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
BERNARD MALAMUDAnd 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.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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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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… 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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