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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

Bernard Malamud

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Happiness Plus Space
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Afterthought Flower Language
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
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
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men

For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

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