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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

Bernard Malamud

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
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
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
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
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Confusion Giving Order
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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 can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

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