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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

Bernard Malamud

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
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
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 purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Confusion Giving Order

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

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