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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

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
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
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
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
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth

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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