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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

Bernard Malamud

(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Clothes Kind Men
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
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
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
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Long Men Perseverance
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
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Give Up Giving Thinking
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.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Boring Live Mode Writing

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