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Life is a tragedy full of joy.

Bernard Malamud

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
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
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
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
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
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
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
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

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

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