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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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Novelist
Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
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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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We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is most of us have to be strangers.
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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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You see in others who you are.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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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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We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.
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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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Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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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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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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