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

Bernard Malamud

It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
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
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
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
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Happiness Plus Space
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
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Blame Giving Misery
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Few Forget Jokes Remind
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Charity Giving Havens

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

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