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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

Bernard Malamud

Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering Two
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
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
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
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss

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