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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

Bernard Malamud

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering Two
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
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
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
… 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.
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Believe Cloud Sky
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
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.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
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.
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Circles Cutting Experts

When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

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