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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

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
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
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
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
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
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
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
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
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
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

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