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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

Bernard Malamud

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
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
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
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
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 work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger

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