You see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUDHow one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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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.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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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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As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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