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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

Bernard Malamud

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
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.
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Afterthought Flower Language
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
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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Apology Country Russia
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
There 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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Dark Experiences Mystical Self
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
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
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
You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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Men Pity Surprise

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