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.
BERNARD MALAMUDOf 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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… 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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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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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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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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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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