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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Bernard Malamud

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
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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Circles Cutting Experts
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
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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Back Children Games Love
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
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
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 your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train

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