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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

Bernard Malamud

A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
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
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
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
… 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
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories

There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

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