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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

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
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
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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Book Firsts Ideas
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window

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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