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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 wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
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
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
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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Confusion Giving Order
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
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
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
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
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

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

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