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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.

Bernard Malamud

When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Confusion Giving Order
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Clay Experience Past
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 Frivolous Leisure Matter
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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Broken Expect Heart
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
BERNARD MALAMUD

Course Normal Steps
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Across Anger Coal Hot
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Happiness Plus Space
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
BERNARD MALAMUD

Believe Both God Stranger
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Give Up Giving Thinking
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Learning Men Nature
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Civilized Language Persecuted
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
Nationality isn’t soul.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Nation Nationality Soul

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