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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
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
Justice
Another
Doe
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Live
Thing
Men
Diversity
Learned

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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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 idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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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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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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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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You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.
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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Politics isn't in my nature.
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