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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

Bernard Malamud

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
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
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
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

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