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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

Bernard Malamud

When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
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
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars
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
The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

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