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

Bernard Malamud

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
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
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
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
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
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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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