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Politics isn’t in my nature.

Bernard Malamud

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
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
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
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
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
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

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