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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Bernard Malamud

There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
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
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
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
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
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Back Children Games Love
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
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
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
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose

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