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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

We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Poor Poverty Sick
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
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
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
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
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
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
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories

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