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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
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
Yelling
Biographies
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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