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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
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
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
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
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
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
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
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
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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

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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