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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 sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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You see in others who you are.
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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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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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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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
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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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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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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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
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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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