Bernard Malamud Quotes - Page 3

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• When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

  Bernard Malamud

  Hurt, Feels

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Assistant”, p.85, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

  Bernard Malamud

  Wine, Sadness, Tragedy

  1975 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

  Bernard Malamud

  Life, Loss, Joy

  Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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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.

  Bernard Malamud

  Men, Thinking, Doubt

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• We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

  Bernard Malamud

  Sick, Poverty, Poor

  "A Malamud reader".

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• I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

  Bernard Malamud

  Flower, Language, Afterthought

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.67, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

  Bernard Malamud

  Country, Apology, Russia

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• Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Who You Are

  BERNARD MALAMUD (1979). “DUBLIN'S LIVES”

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• Where to look if you've lost your mind?

  Bernard Malamud

  Mind, Looks, Lost

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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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  Lonely, Stars, Loneliness

  Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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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.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Character, Discipline

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.59, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

  Bernard Malamud

  Moving, Writing, Ideas

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.32, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

  Bernard Malamud

  Life, Book, Inspire

  Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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• I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

  Bernard Malamud

  Heart, Broken

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

  Bernard Malamud

  Ease, Language, Thirst

  Bernard Malamud (2003). “The Tenants: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

  Bernard Malamud

  Language, Civilized, Persecuted

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.204, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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

  Yelling, Done, Want

  W magazine, February 16, 1979.

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• A man had to learn, it was his nature.

  Bernard Malamud

  Learning, Men

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.210, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

  Bernard Malamud

  Happiness, Space, Plus

  Bernard Malamud (1961). “The New Life”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

  Bernard Malamud

  Book, Would Be, Matter

  BERNARD MALAMUD (1979). “DUBLIN'S LIVES”

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• You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

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  Men, Surprise, Pity

  Bernard Malamud (1987). “The Fixer”, Isis Large Print Books

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• Politics isn't in my nature.

  Bernard Malamud

  Politics

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• First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.

  Bernard Malamud

  Book, Ideas, Firsts

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.59, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

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  Self, Stories, Pages

  Bernard Malamud (1984). “The Stories of Bernard Malamud”

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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.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Sitting Down, Down And

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.58, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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