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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

Bernard Malamud

How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
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
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
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
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
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst

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