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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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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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 don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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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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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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You see in others who you are.
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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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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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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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