Nationality isn’t soul.
BERNARD MALAMUDTomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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