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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

Bernard Malamud

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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
… 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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
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
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Back Children Games Love

When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

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