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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

Bernard Malamud

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
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
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
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
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
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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Men Pity Surprise
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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
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
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
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling

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