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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.

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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is most of us have to be strangers.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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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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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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