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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.

Bernard Malamud

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
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
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
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
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success

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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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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