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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.

Bernard Malamud

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Back Children Games Love
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
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

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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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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