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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.

Bernard Malamud

We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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
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
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
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality

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