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

Bernard Malamud

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

Give Up Giving Thinking
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are 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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
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
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
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
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars

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