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We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

Bernard Malamud

There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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Men Tattoo Walk Wall Window
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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 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
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
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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People Stories Style
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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Accomplishment Littles People
Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Looks Lost Mind
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
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
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
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick

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