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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

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
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
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
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
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
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return

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.

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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.

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