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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

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
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
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
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
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
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars

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