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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.

Bernard Malamud

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
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
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted

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