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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

Bernard Malamud

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
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
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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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
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
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
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
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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men

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