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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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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
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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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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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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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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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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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