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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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Novelist
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University Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
Lifetime
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is most of us have to be strangers.
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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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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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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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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'
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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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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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