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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

Bernard Malamud

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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
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
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
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
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
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

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