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

Bernard Malamud

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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Long Men Perseverance
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
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
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Circles Cutting Experts
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
… 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
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
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
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
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are

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

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