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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Bernard Malamud

The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
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
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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Believe Cloud Sky
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
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Confusion Giving Order
As long as a man stays alive he can’t tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Long Men Perseverance

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