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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.

Bernard Malamud

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
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.
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Circles Cutting Experts
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
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
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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?
BERNARD MALAMUD

Adventure Moon Stars
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
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
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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing

If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.

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