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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

Bernard Malamud

As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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People Stories Style
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
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
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

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

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