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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.

Bernard Malamud

If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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Book Firsts Ideas
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars
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?
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Adventure Moon Stars
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing

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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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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