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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….

Bernard Malamud

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
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Circles Cutting Experts
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking

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