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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Bernard Malamud

If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering Two
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
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
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
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
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
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart

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