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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.

Bernard Malamud

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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'
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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Politics isn't in my nature.
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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
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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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... 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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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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