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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Bernard Malamud

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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
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
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
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
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
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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose

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