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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

Bernard Malamud

To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Character Discipline Writing
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
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
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Apology Country Russia
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
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
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality

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