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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
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
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
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
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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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight

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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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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