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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

One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
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
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
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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Circles Cutting Experts
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
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
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 short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
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
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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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track

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