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(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.

Bernard Malamud

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
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
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
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
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
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

(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.

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