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Bernard Malamud

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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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University Teacher
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Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
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A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
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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 short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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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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I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
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The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
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We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is most of us have to be strangers.
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
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As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.
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There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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