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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

Bernard Malamud

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
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
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
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
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
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
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
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

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