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

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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
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
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
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
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
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
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing

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

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