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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.

Bernard Malamud

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars
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
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
(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
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
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
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
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
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
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 short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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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Circles Cutting Experts

There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.

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