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A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.

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All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.

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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

So is Easter the festival of eggs or of bunnies bro? I still can’t understand how the eggs and the bunnies are related!

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

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