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 MALAMUDChildren 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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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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You see in others who you are.
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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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