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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

Bernard Malamud

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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Confusion Giving Order
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
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
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
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
… 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
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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst

In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

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