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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

Bernard Malamud

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
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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.
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Identity Who You Are
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
BERNARD MALAMUD

People Stories Style
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Charity Giving Havens
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Across Anger Coal Hot
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Constructs Freedom Invent Men
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Long Men Perseverance
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Change Ears World

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

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