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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Bernard Malamud

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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Metaphor Sometimes Two
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
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
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Circles Cutting Experts
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
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
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
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
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Back Children Games Love
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train

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