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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

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
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
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
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

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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