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Politics isn’t in my nature.

Bernard Malamud

First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….
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Book Firsts Ideas
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Illusion Joy Life Loss
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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Change Ears World
I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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Confusion Giving Order
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand.
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Apparteally Attempt Confusion Experience Time Uncontrolled
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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Jew Knows Men
(Clothes) cannot change a man’s nature. He’s either kind or he isn’t, with or without clothes.
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Clothes Kind Men
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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

Politics isn’t in my nature.

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