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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

You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
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
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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
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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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
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 didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
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

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