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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.

Bernard Malamud

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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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People Stories Style
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering Two
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
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
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
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are

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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