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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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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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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There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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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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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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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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 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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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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You see in others who you are.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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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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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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