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Bernard Malamud

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.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
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
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
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
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Confusion Giving Order
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return

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