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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Bernard Malamud

You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
There are no wrong books. What’s wrong is the fear of them.
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Book Fixers Wrong
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
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
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
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
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
I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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Give Up Giving Thinking
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
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
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose

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