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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

Bernard Malamud

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Apology Country Russia
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
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
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
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
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Ate Dream Success
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Few Forget Jokes Remind
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Knowledge Littles Sometime

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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