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Life is a tragedy full of joy.

Bernard Malamud

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
Writers who can’t invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn’t paint people, so he painted chairs.
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People Stories Style
Life is a tragedy full of joy.
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Follow Joy Life Your Heart
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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Constructs Freedom Invent Men
If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Stations Track Train
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
A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
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Reading Surprise Worth
I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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Knowledge Littles Sometime
How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?
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Believe Both God Stranger
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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Cracks Eventually Mystery Real Track
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Insects Loneliness Lonely Matter Men Stars
In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.
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Ate Dream Success
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
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Who You Are Writing
For misery don’t blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.
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Blame Giving Misery
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 short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Pages Self Stories

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