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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Bernard Malamud

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Confusion Giving Order
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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Book Firsts Ideas
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
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
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
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
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
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
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
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Dark Experiences Mystical Self

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