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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

Bernard Malamud

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
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
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
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
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
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
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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 work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing

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