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

Bernard Malamud

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
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
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
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
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
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
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories

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

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