Nationality isn’t soul.
BERNARD MALAMUDThe past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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