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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

Bernard Malamud

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Back Children Games Love
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
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
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst

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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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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