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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.

Bernard Malamud

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?
BERNARD MALAMUD

Adventure Moon Stars
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
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
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
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
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Afterthought Flower Language
Politics isn’t in my nature.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Nature Politics Work
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Clothes Kind Men
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
You see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Identity Who You Are
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

Back Children Games Love
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind

There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.

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