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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

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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Men
Diversity
Learned
Justice
Another
Doe
Able
Live
Thing

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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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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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I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.
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The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is most of us have to be strangers.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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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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... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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