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All men are Jews, though few men know it.

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
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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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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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... 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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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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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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Politics isn't in my nature.
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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You see in others who you are.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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