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

Bernard Malamud

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Metaphor Sometimes Two
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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Blame Giving Misery
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
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 work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
… 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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Believe Cloud Sky
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Accomplishment Littles People
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
BERNARD MALAMUD

Course Normal Steps
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Stations Track Train

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

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