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… 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.

Bernard Malamud

Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
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
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
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
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
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
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
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
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 can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World

… 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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… 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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