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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

Bernard Malamud

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
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
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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

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