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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

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
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
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
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
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
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
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

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