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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.
Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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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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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
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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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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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