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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.

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
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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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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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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