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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 sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is most of us have to be strangers.
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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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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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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.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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