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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

Bernard Malamud

One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
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
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
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
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars
It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
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
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

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