What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
BERNARD MALAMUDAll my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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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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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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