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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.

Bernard Malamud

(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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Men Pity Surprise
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
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
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
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
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind

And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.

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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.

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