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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.

Bernard Malamud

You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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People Stories Style
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
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
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
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Back Children Games Love
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
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
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens

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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