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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.

Bernard Malamud

Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
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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Clay Past Recapture Time
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
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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Human Relations Stranger World
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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 past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men

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 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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