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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Politics isn't in my nature.
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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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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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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