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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
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
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
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
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
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
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
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
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 man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
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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Back Children Games Love
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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
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

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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