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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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Novelist
Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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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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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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