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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.

Bernard Malamud

In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
(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
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
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
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart

To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.

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