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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.

Bernard Malamud

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
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
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
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
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
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
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
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Confusion Giving Order

Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.

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