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

Bernard Malamud

(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
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
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
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
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
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
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
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime

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