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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?

Bernard Malamud

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
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Life Live Suffering Two
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Freedom Others Purpose
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
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
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Looks Lost Mind
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
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Down Forever Hurt Obstacles Overnight
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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Circles Cutting Experts

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