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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.

Bernard Malamud

All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Circles Cutting Experts
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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People Stories Style
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind

(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.

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