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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

Bernard Malamud

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
BERNARD MALAMUD

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
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
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
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
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

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