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

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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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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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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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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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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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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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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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