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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Bernard Malamud

… 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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Back Children Games Love
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars
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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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps

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