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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Bernard Malamud

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
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
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
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
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
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Confusion Giving Order
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works

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