One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
BERNARD MALAMUDHow can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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You see in others who you are.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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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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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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