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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

Bernard Malamud

There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Back Children Games Love
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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
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
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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People Stories Style

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