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Nationality isn’t soul.

Bernard Malamud

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
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Few Forget Jokes Remind
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
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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Men Pity Surprise
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Bury Feels Hope Hurt
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
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.
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People Stories Style
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works

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