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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Bernard Malamud

If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
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
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Confusion Giving Order
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
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

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