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Bernard Malamud

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
(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
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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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
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
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness

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