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If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

Bernard Malamud

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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
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Wrong
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Stations

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