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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

Bernard Malamud

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
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
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
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
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
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return

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