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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

Bernard Malamud

How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
… 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
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
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
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
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
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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.
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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

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

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