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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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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.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
Bernard Malamud
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.
Bernard Malamud
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
Bernard Malamud
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
Bernard Malamud
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
Bernard Malamud
