It’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.
BERNARD MALAMUDOne 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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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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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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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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… 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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