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

Bernard Malamud

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Who You Are Writing
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
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
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
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
… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart

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

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