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Bernard Malamud

One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Confusion Giving Order
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
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Circles Cutting Experts
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Life Live Suffering Two
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
BERNARD MALAMUD

Pages Self Stories
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Knowledge Littles Sometime
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Afterthought Flower Language
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Metaphor Sometimes Two
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Human Relations Stranger World
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Accomplishment Littles People
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Apology Country Russia
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Teaching Uncertainty Writing
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Across Anger Coal Hot
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Boring Live Mode Writing
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Happiness Plus Space
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Assuming Discipline Matter Works
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Men Pity Surprise
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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Clay Past Recapture Time

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