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Bernard Malamud

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
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
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
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
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Ideas Moving Writing
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
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?
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Adventure Moon Stars
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
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

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