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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

Bernard Malamud

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
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
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
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
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 one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works

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