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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

Bernard Malamud

There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are 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 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
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
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
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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
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
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth

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