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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

Bernard Malamud

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
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
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

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