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Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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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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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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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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