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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.

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
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
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
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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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
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 story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
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
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
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
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
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime

If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.

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