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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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 purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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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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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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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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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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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