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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

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.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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

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