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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

Bernard Malamud

And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Back Children Games Love
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
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Courage Inspirational Inspiring
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Bury Feels Hope Hurt
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
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
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Boring Live Mode Writing

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