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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Bernard Malamud

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
BERNARD MALAMUD

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

Change Ears World
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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Book Firsts Ideas
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
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
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
… 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
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia

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