In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
BERNARD MALAMUDThere is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Nationality isn’t soul.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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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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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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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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