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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
- Hell Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
- Greed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.
- Decide
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020