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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

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
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Live
Writing

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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
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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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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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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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