In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
BERNARD MALAMUDWhere to look if you’ve lost your mind?
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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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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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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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 the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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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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