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A man had to learn, it was his nature.

Bernard Malamud

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
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
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
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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.
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Confusion Giving Order
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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
(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

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