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

Bernard Malamud

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
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
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
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
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose

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