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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

Bernard Malamud

We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky
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
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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People Stories Style
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
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
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

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