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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.

Bernard Malamud

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Civilized Language Persecuted

Bagwalas

How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Works
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Littles Sometime
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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Stories
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Uncertainty
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Fixers
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

BERNARD MALAMUD

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 Games
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

BERNARD MALAMUD

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
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Relations
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Steps
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Havens
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Revision
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