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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.

Bernard Malamud

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
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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People Stories Style
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision 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

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