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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

Bernard Malamud

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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Book Firsts Ideas
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
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

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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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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