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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.

Bernard Malamud

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?
BERNARD MALAMUD

Adventure Moon Stars
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
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
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
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
(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
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return

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