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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

Bernard Malamud

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
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
… 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
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
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
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
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
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

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