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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

Bernard Malamud

Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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
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
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
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
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
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
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
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
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger

In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

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