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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.
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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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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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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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