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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

Bernard Malamud

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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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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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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
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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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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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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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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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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