How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
BERNARD MALAMUDThere 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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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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