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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Bernard Malamud

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
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
And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
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 Eventually Mystery Real Track
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
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart

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