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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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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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... 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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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 sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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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 whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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You see in others who you are.
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