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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
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Brooklyn
New York
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Live
Thing
Men
Diversity
Learned
Justice
Another
Doe

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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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Politics isn't in my nature.
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What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
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There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
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