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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Bernard Malamud

When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
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
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Character Discipline Writing
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Pleasure Revision Writing
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
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
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
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

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