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Bernard Malamud

Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
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
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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.
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Clay Experience Past
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
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
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
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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space

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