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Politics isn’t in my nature.

Bernard Malamud

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
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
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
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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Course Normal Steps
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect Heart
I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Metaphor Sometimes Two
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
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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Draft Firsts Learn Stories
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Ideas Moving Writing
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Across Anger Coal Hot
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
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 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

Politics isn’t in my nature.

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