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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

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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
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
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
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
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking

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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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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