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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Bernard Malamud

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
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
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
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
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
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
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling
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
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
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
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime

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