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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.

Bernard Malamud

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.
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Courage Inspirational Inspiring
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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Sadness Tragedy Wine
You see in others who you are.
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Identity Who You Are
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Doubt Men Metaphoric Statement Thinking
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Book Inspire Life Resurrecting
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
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing

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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