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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
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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 whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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 didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst

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