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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.

Bernard Malamud

Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars
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
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
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
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 purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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

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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