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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

Bernard Malamud

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
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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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
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
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
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World

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