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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

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
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
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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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
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
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind

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

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