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

Bernard Malamud

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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
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
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth

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