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The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.

Bernard Malamud

I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
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
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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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Men Pity Surprise
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
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

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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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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