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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.

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
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
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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
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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track

I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.

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I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.

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