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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.

Bernard Malamud

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Back Children Games Love
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
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.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
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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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
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

(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.

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