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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.

Bernard Malamud

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
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
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
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
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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Back Children Games Love
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty 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
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return

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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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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