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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

Bernard Malamud

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Sadness Tragedy Wine
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
The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
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
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Who You Are Writing
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
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
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Human Relations Stranger World
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Change Ears World
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Confusion Giving Order
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

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