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

Bernard Malamud

What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Book Frivolous Leisure Matter
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
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 whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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People Stories Style
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
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
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
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt

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