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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.

Bernard Malamud

A man had to learn, it was his nature.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Learning Men Nature
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering Two
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
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
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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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Long Men Perseverance
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Character Discipline Writing
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success

(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.

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