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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?

Bernard Malamud

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?
BERNARD MALAMUD

Adventure Moon Stars
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars
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
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
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
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
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
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
If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
(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
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men

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