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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

Bernard Malamud

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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
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
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
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
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling

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