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Life is a tragedy full of joy.

Bernard Malamud

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
… 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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
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
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
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
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

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