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Bernard Malamud

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature

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