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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

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering Two
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
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
… 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
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
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

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