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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.

Bernard Malamud

Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
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
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
… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky
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
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Circles Cutting Experts
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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick

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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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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