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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

Bernard Malamud

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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
Feels
Marvelous
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Otherwise
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Space
Whatever
Happiness
Feel
Equals

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