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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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I fix what's broken - except in the heart.
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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
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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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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
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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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