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

Bernard Malamud

There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
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
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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….
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Book Firsts Ideas
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 short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
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
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.
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Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality

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