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I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

Bernard Malamud

Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
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
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
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
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
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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
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

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