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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

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
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
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
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
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space

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

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

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