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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 don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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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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