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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

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
If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
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
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
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
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
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
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
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart

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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