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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Bernard Malamud

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Back Children Games Love
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Follow Joy Life Your Heart
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Dark Experiences Mystical Self
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.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
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
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 Pity Surprise
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
… 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

Believe Cloud Sky
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

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