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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.

Bernard Malamud

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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Metaphor Sometimes Two
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
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
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
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
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst

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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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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