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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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 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 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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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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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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I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
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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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... 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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Politics isn't in my nature.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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