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Quotations 4/24/2015 at 2:23 PM EDT

â€œWe have two lives... the life we learn with and t

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Quotation by Bernard Malamud:

"We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness."

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1914-1986 (Age at death: 72 approx.)

Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 - March 18, 1986) was an American author of novels and short stories. Along with Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford. His 1966 novel The Fixer (also filmed), about antisemitism in Tsarist Russia, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

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