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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

Bernard Malamud

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
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
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
BERNARD MALAMUD

Pages Self Stories
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
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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
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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

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