One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
BERNARD MALAMUDIt’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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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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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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