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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Bernard Malamud

(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
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
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
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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Book Firsts Ideas
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
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
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring

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