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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

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
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
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
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
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
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
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing

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