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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

Bernard Malamud

There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Human Relations Stranger World
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Change Ears World
… 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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Believe Cloud Sky
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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Book Frivolous Leisure Matter

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