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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.
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 write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.
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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 past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
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