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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.

Bernard Malamud

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
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
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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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
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
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Confusion Giving Order
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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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
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
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
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring

Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.

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