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Bernard Malamud

I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Give Up Giving Thinking
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Knowledge Littles Sometime
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering Two
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
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
BERNARD MALAMUD

Pages Self Stories
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong

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