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

Bernard Malamud

One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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
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
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering Two
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Confusion Giving Order
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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
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 sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
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
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing

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