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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.

Bernard Malamud

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
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
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
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
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
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
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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Men Pity Surprise
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
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth

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