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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Bernard Malamud

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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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Clay Past Recapture Time
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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

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