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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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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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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
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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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You see in others who you are.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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... 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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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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