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

Bernard Malamud

Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature

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