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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

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
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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 purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
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
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
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

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

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