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Politics isn’t in my nature.

Bernard Malamud

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
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
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
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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
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
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt

Politics isn’t in my nature.

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