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A man had to learn, it was his nature.

Bernard Malamud

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
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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Teaching Uncertainty Writing
Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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Charity Giving Havens
How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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Assuming Discipline Matter Works
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
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
One’s fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Fantasy Funn Marriage Return
Politics isn’t in my nature.
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Nature Politics Work
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
I fix what’s broken – except in the heart.
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Broken Expect 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
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
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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Clay Experience Past
You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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Ease Language Thirst
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

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

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