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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

Bernard Malamud

And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Broken Expect Heart
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Baseball Mythology Quality
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Bury Feels Hope Hurt
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Across Anger Coal Hot
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Ease Language Thirst
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
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Charity Giving Havens
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
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
Nationality isn’t soul.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Nation Nationality Soul
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
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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Happiness Plus Space
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
BERNARD MALAMUD

Biography Done Want Yelling

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

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