How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
BERNARD MALAMUDOvernight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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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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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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… 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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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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