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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

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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Circles Cutting Experts
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
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
(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
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return

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