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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

Bernard Malamud

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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
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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Back Children Games Love
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
… 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
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People

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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