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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

It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
(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
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
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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
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
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
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
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong

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