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Bernard Malamud

If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering Two
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
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
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
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
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
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men

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