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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.

Bernard Malamud

… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky
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
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
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
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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 are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
(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
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
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature

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