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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

All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
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
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
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
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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

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