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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.

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
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Possible
Timid
Believe
Cloud
Good
Unable
Love
Entitled
Like
Clouds
Sky
Fortune
Windy
Perhaps
Timidity

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