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

Bernard Malamud

One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
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
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
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
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

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

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