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

Bernard Malamud

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
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
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
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
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
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
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
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Back Children Games Love
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
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind

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