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Politics isn't in my nature.

Bernard Malamud

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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
Politics
Nature

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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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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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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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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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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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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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