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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

Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
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
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
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
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
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
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
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
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
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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
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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