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.
BERNARD MALAMUDWhat suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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You see in others who you are.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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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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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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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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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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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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