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

Bernard Malamud

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Havens

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

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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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Fixers
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language
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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Know Learn
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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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?
BERNARD MALAMUD
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

BERNARD MALAMUD

You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nationality
… 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

… 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
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Ears
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 Imperfect Until
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 Yelling
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Moving
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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Frivolous Leisure
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.

BERNARD MALAMUD

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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Window

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

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