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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.

Bernard Malamud

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
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
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
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
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
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
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

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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