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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

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
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
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
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
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
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
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering Two
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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People Stories Style
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
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
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth

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