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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.

Bernard Malamud

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
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
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
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
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
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
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
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
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
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
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
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World

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