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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 great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
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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 don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Politics isn't in my nature.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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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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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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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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