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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

Bernard Malamud

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
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
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Blame Giving Misery
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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 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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Book Fixers Wrong
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
BERNARD MALAMUD

Pages Self Stories
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
BERNARD MALAMUD

People Stories Style
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Baseball Mythology Quality
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Boring Live Mode Writing
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Back Children Games Love
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.
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Confusion Giving Order

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