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

Bernard Malamud

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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
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
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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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People Stories Style
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language

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