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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

Bernard Malamud

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering Two
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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
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
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
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

When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

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