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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

Bernard Malamud

You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Down Sitting Writing
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Men Pity Surprise
The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
BERNARD MALAMUD

Believe Both God Stranger
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Jew Knows Men
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Freedom Others Purpose
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Back Children Games Love
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Bury Feels Hope Hurt
Politics isn’t in my nature.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Nature Politics Work
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Ideas Moving Writing
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Illusion Joy Life Loss
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Long Men Perseverance
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Happiness Plus Space
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Knowledge Littles Sometime
… 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

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

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