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

Bernard Malamud

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Who You Are Writing
… 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
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
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
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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
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
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
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

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

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