A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
BERNARD MALAMUDHow one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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You see in others who you are.
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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