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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.

Bernard Malamud

Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
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
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are 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
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
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
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

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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