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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.

Bernard Malamud

I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Broken Expect Heart
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
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
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
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
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
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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Men Pity Surprise
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.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window

I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.

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