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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.

Bernard Malamud

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
If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision 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
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
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
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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