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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

Bernard Malamud

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

Poor Poverty Sick
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Ease Language Thirst
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

Clay Past Recapture Time
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Suffering Taught Uselessness
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Ate Dream Success
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
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
BERNARD MALAMUD

Pages Self Stories
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Jew Knows Men
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
BERNARD MALAMUD

Looks Lost Mind
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Boring Live Mode Writing
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Learning Men Nature
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Reading Surprise Worth
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
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

Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Freedom Others Purpose
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Metaphor Sometimes Two

… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

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