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

Bernard Malamud

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
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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
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
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
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

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