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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

A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
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 your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars
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
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
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
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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
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

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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