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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

Bernard Malamud

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
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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
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
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
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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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
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
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart

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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