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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

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
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
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
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 sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
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
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
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
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart

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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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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