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To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.

Bernard Malamud
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

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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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