Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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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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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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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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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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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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