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Nationality isn’t soul.

Bernard Malamud

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
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
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
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
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
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

Book Firsts Ideas
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Confusion Giving Order
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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

Nationality isn’t soul.

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