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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’

Bernard Malamud

One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
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
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
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
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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 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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
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
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing

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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