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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Bernard Malamud

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
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
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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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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Men Pity Surprise
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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

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