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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.

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
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Confusion Giving Order
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories

You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.

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