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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

Bernard Malamud

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
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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Confusion Giving Order
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
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
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
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
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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Men Pity Surprise

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

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