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Nationality isn’t soul.

Bernard Malamud

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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
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
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
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
And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing

Nationality isn’t soul.

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