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There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

Bernard Malamud

You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
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
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
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
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind

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