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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

Bernard Malamud

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
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
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
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

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