You see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUDPrufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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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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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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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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We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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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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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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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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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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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.
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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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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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