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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

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
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Except
Broken
Heart

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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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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 has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Politics isn't in my nature.
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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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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
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