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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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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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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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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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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.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Politics isn't in my nature.
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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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