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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

Bernard Malamud

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Few Forget Jokes Remind
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
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.
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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
… 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
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
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

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