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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.

Bernard Malamud

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

Clothes Kind Men
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Life Live Suffering Two
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
BERNARD MALAMUD

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

Poor Poverty Sick
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Give Up Giving Thinking
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Bury Feels Hope Hurt
You see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Identity Who You Are
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Ate Dream Success
… 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
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
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Apology Country Russia
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men

There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.

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