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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

Bernard Malamud

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.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
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
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
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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Adventure Moon Stars
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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
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
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
BERNARD MALAMUD

Clay Experience Past

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

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