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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

Bernard Malamud

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

Stations Track Train
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Draft Firsts Learn Stories
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Men Pity Surprise
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Metaphor Sometimes Two
(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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
BERNARD MALAMUD

Biography Done Want Yelling
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Broken Expect Heart
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Constructs Freedom Invent Men
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
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
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Bury Feels Hope Hurt

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