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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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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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Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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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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You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.
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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 love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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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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