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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.

Bernard Malamud

Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Circles Cutting Experts
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
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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
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
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
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance

You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.

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