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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.

Bernard Malamud

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
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
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
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
(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
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
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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Adventure Moon Stars
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
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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Men Pity Surprise

If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.

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