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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

Bernard Malamud

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
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
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
It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
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
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
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
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
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 sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind

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