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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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 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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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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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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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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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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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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