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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.

Bernard Malamud

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Courage Inspirational Inspiring
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Accomplishment Littles People
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
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
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Men Pity Surprise

To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.

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