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

Bernard Malamud

In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
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
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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People Stories Style
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
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
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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Confusion Giving Order
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories

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