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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

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
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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Men Pity Surprise
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering Two
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
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?
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Adventure Moon Stars

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