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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

Bernard Malamud

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
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
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
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
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
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
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality

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