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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

Bernard Malamud

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
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Confusion Giving Order
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
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
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky

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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