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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

Bernard Malamud

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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
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
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
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
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
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
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
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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Book Firsts Ideas
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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Men Pity Surprise
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime

Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

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