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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

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Confusion Giving Order
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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
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

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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