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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

Bernard Malamud

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
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
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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Knowledge Littles Sometime
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
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
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
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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
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

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