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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

Bernard Malamud

Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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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Life Live Suffering Two
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
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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People Stories Style
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
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
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
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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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
(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
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
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.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw

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