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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.

Bernard Malamud

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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
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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars
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 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

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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