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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
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Stories
Self
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Lifetime

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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is most of us have to be strangers.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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