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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

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
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
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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
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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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track

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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