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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

Bernard Malamud

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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
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
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
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
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose

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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