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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

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
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
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
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
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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Circles Cutting Experts
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World

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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