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Bernard Malamud

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
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
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
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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

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