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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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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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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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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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 love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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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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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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Politics isn't in my nature.
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If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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You see in others who you are.
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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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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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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... 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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I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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