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The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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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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All men are Jews, though few men know it.
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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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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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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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Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
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