Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
BERNARD MALAMUDWithout heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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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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You see in others who you are.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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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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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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