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I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

Bernard Malamud

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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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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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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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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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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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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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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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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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