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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

Bernard Malamud

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 first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
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Accept Book Imperfect Uncertain Until
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
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
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
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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Clay Past Recapture Time
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
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
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past

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