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

Bernard Malamud

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
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
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
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
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
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
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
… 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
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
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

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