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Bernard Malamud

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
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
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
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
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
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

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