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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.'
Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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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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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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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
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