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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

Bernard Malamud

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
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
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
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
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
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
… 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
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

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