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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

Bernard Malamud

Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories

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