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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.

Bernard Malamud

You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
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
… 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
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing

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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