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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

Bernard Malamud

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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
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
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
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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Life Live Suffering Two
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
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted

One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

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