For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
BERNARD MALAMUDCompleted, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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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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You see in others who you are.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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