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

Bernard Malamud

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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Back Children Games Love
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
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
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia

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

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