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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
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
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
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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Men Pity Surprise
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
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
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Circles Cutting Experts
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
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
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
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

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