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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.

Bernard Malamud

You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
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
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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Book Firsts Ideas
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
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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Life Live Suffering Two
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
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
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past

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