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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

Bernard Malamud

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
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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
… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky
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
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Confusion Giving Order
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
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

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