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

Bernard Malamud

All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
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
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
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Draft Firsts Learn Stories
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
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
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing

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

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