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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

Bernard Malamud

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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Diversity Justice Know Learn Men
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
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
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
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

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

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