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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

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
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
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 don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
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
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
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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

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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