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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

Bernard Malamud

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
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
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
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
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

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