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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

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
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 are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
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
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
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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Biography Done Want Yelling
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime

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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