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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

Bernard Malamud

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
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
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
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
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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
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
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
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 Done Want Yelling

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