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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

Bernard Malamud

I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
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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Back Children Games Love
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
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 first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
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
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories

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