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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

Bernard Malamud

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
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Back Children Games Love
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
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
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
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
… 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
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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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Adventure Moon Stars
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

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