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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Bernard Malamud

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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
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
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
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
And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw

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