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You see in others who you are.

Bernard Malamud

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
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
… 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
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
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
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
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 see in others who you are.

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