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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

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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Havens
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology
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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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Back Games
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
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Ears
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Works
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Moving
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Apparteally Confusion Uncontrolled
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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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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Cracks Real
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Lowest Runner
It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Know Learn
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 Yelling
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Relations
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.

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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows