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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

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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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
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
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
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
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
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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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime

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

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