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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

Bernard Malamud

Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
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
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
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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
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
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Circles Cutting Experts
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

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