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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.'

Bernard Malamud

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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
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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 man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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 fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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