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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

Bernard Malamud

One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
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
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing

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