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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.

Bernard Malamud

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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
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
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
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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Book Firsts Ideas
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.

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