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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

Bernard Malamud

As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
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
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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People Stories Style
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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

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