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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.

Bernard Malamud

One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
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
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
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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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
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
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men

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