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1. "Charity you can give even when you haven't got." ~ Bernard Malamud
2. "Teach yourself to work in uncertainty." ~ Bernard Malamud
3. "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." ~ Bernard Malamud
4. "You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention." ~ Bernard Malamud
5. "Nobody lived in Eden anymore." ~ Bernard Malamud
6. "We're persecuted in the most civilized languages." ~ Bernard Malamud
7. "She waited uneasily and shyly. From afar he saw that her eyes--clearly her father's--were filled with desperate innocence. He pictured, in her, his own redemption. Violins and lit candles revolved in the sky. Leo ran forward with flowers out-thrust." ~ Bernard Malamud
8. "She is not for you. She is a wild one--wild, without shame. This is not a bride for a rabbi"." ~ Bernard Malamud
9. "A meshummed gives up one God for another. I don't want either. We live in a world where the clock ticks fast while he's on his timeless mountain staring in space. He doesn't see us and he doesn't care. Today I want my piece of bread, not in Paradise." ~ Bernard Malamud
10. "His worst fault is he thinks his brains entitle him to certain privileges." ~ Bernard Malamud
11. "Life, despite their frantic yoohooings, had passed them by." ~ Bernard Malamud
12. "In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams." ~ Bernard Malamud
13. "Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go." ~ Bernard Malamud
14. "Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing." ~ Bernard Malamud
15. "A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye." ~ Bernard Malamud
16. "We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that." ~ Bernard Malamud
17. "Life is a tragedy full of joy." ~ Bernard Malamud
18. "If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you." ~ Bernard Malamud
19. "Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are." ~ Bernard Malamud
20. "I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought." ~ Bernard Malamud
21. "She had recently come to think that in such unhappy times-when the odds were so high against personal happiness-to find love was miraculous, and to fulfill it as best as two people could was what really mattered. Was it more important to insist a man's religious beliefs be exactly hers, or that the two of them have in common ideals, a desire to keep love in their lives, and to preserve in every possible way what was best in themselves? The less difference among people, the better; thus she settled it for herself yet was dissatisfied for those for whom she hadn't settled it," ~ Bernard Malamud
22. "Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered--sometimes it seemed to take forever--went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down." ~ Bernard Malamud
23. "The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course" ~ Bernard Malamud
24. "When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me." ~ Bernard Malamud
25. "I fix what's broken - except in the heart." ~ Bernard Malamud
26. "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. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity." ~ Bernard Malamud
27. "There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them." ~ Bernard Malamud
28. "He remembered how satisfied he had been as a youngster, and that with the little he had had - a dog, a stick, an aloneness he loved (which did not bleed him like his later loneliness), and he wished he could have lived longer in his boyhood. This was an old thought with him." ~ Bernard Malamud
29. "Wonderboy flashed in the sun. It caught the sphere it was biggest. A noise like a twenty-one gun salute cracked the sky. There was a straining, ripping sound and a few drops of rain spattered to the ground somebody then shouted it was raining cats and dogs. By the time of Roy got in from second he was wading in water ankle deep." ~ Bernard Malamud
30. "Leo hurried up to bed and hid under the covers. Under the covers he thought his life through. Although he soon fell asleep he could not sleep her out of his mind. He woke, beating his breast. Though he prayed to be rid of her, his prayers went unanswered. Through days of torment he endlessly struggled not to love her; fearing success, he escaped it. He then concluded to convert her to goodness, himself to God. The idea alternately nauseated and exalted him." ~ Bernard Malamud
31. "Who invented my life?" ~ Bernard Malamud
32. "I'm an American, I'm a Jew, and I write for all men." ~ Bernard Malamud
33. "They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men." ~ Bernard Malamud
34. "If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you." ~ Bernard Malamud

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