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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.
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Circles Cutting Experts
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
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
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
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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Book Firsts Ideas
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
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
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World

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