As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
BERNARD MALAMUDAs 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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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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You see in others who you are.
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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.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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