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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

Bernard Malamud

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
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
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
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
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
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
… 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

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