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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

Bernard Malamud

If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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
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.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn 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
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
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
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
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
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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

One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

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