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Bernard Malamud Inspirational Quotes (48)

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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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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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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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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 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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The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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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 fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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