How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
BERNARD MALAMUDHow can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new.
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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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Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.
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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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You see in others who you are.
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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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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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I don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: “It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, ‘We want out. We want to tell you what we’ve done to you.’
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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.
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No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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