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Bernard Malamud

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
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
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Confusion Giving Order
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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People Stories Style
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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
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 don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
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
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
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 Children Games Love
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
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering Two
… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
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
(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

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

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