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Bernard Malamud

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Accomplishment Littles People
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
BERNARD MALAMUD

Biography Done Want Yelling
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Jew Knows Men
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Follow Joy Life Your Heart
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Human Relations Stranger World
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

Circles Cutting Experts
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Civilized Language Persecuted
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Afterthought Flower Language
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Baseball Mythology Quality
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Change Ears World
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Men Pity Surprise
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Poor Poverty Sick
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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
BERNARD MALAMUD

Looks Lost Mind
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
BERNARD MALAMUD

People Stories Style
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Knowledge Littles Sometime

You see in others who you are.

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