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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

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
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
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
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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
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 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
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
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars

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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