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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

How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
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 short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling
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
And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
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
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
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger

… 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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