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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

Bernard Malamud

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
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
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
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery

One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

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