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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

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
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
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
BERNARD MALAMUD

Adventure Moon Stars
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
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 wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Apology Country Russia
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart

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