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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.

Bernard Malamud

I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Circles Cutting Experts
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
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
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
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
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows 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

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