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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

Bernard Malamud

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
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
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
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
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
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling
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

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