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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?

Bernard Malamud

One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
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
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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People Stories Style
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
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
… 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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
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
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
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories

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