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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

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
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
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
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
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
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
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
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
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

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