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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

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
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
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
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
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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Book Firsts Ideas
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
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
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
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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