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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.

Bernard Malamud

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
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
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
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
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

If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.

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