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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

Bernard Malamud

A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
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
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
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
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
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
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
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 short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
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

For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

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