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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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More quotes by Bernard Malamud
I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.
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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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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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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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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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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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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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I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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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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You see in others who you are.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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 purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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