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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

Bernard Malamud

The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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
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 has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
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
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
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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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
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
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing

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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