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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.

Bernard Malamud

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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Ate Dream Success
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
BERNARD MALAMUD

People Stories Style
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
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
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Boring Live Mode Writing
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
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.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
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
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Character Discipline Writing
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
BERNARD MALAMUD

Biography Done Want Yelling

Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.

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