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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

Bernard Malamud

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
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
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
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
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery

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