I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
BERNARD MALAMUDPolitics isn’t in my nature.
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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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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You see in others who you are.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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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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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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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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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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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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