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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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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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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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