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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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New York
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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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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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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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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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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There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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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