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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
Self
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Lifetime
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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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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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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 wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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 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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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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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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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