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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
Bernard Malamud
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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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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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.
Bernard Malamud
I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
Bernard Malamud
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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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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.'
Bernard Malamud
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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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
Bernard Malamud
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
Bernard Malamud
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.
Bernard Malamud
