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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

Bernard Malamud

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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
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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Men Pity Surprise
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Circles Cutting Experts
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
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
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart

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