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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

Bernard Malamud

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
We’re persecuted in the most civilized languages.
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Civilized Language Persecuted
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
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
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
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
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
And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
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
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
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
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing

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