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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
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
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
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
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
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
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
If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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

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