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

Bernard Malamud

(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
… 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
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
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
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
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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
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.
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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
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.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose

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

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