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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

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
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
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
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 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
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
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
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
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
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 idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past

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