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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

Bernard Malamud

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Change Ears World
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
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Poor Poverty Sick
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Men Pity Surprise

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