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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
Writing
Pencil
Pencils
Quickly
Idea
Moving
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We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is most of us have to be strangers.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Politics isn't in my nature.
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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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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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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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