Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
BERNARD MALAMUDLife is a tragedy full of joy.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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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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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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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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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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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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You see in others who you are.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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