Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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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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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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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.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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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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