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How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?

Bernard Malamud

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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Happiness Plus Space
You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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Down Sitting Writing
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Boring Live Mode Writing
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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Suffering Taught Uselessness
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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Diminishing Humanity Small Some Withdraw
A man had to learn, it was his nature.
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Learning Men Nature
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
If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Few Forget Jokes Remind
Nationality isn’t soul.
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Nation Nationality Soul
When I don’t feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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Bury Feels Hope Hurt
We didn’t starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.
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Poor Poverty Sick
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
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
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
The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Pleasure Revision Writing

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