Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
BERNARD MALAMUDWhere to look if you’ve lost your mind?
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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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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You see in others who you are.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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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