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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

Bernard Malamud

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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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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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Nationality isn’t soul.
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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