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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

Bernard Malamud

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode 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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
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
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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
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
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty 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
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind

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