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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

Bernard Malamud

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
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
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Down Sitting Writing
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Assuming Discipline Matter Works
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Apology Country Russia
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Freedom Others Purpose
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
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Afterthought Flower Language
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?
BERNARD MALAMUD

Adventure Moon Stars
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Ease Language Thirst
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Charity Giving Havens
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Constructs Freedom Invent Men
Nationality isn’t soul.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Nation Nationality Soul
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Change Ears World
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Across Anger Coal Hot

In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

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