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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.
Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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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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