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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

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
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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
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
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
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

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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