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A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

Bernard Malamud

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Bernard Malamud
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 26
Died: 1986
Died: March 18
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Novelist
Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Brooklyn
New York
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Where to look if you've lost your mind?
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One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.
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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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... 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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