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

Bernard Malamud

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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
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
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Back Children Games Love
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
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
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
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
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
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
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
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past

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

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