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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

Bernard Malamud

One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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Baseball Mythology Quality
To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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Character Discipline Writing
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering Two
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
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.
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Ideas Reform Revision Work Writing
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
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
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
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

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

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