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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

Bernard Malamud

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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Biography Done Want Yelling
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
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
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
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
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
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing

… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

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