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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

Bernard Malamud

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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
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
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps

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