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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

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 short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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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 love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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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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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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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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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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