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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

Bernard Malamud

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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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
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
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
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
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
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
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering 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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

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