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

Bernard Malamud

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
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Blame Giving Misery
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.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Happiness Plus Space
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
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
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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

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