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We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is most of us have to be strangers.

Bernard Malamud

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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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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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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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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 idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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