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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

Bernard Malamud

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
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 short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
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
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 don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
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
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart

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