I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

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Bernard Malamud was a 20th-century American writer. Bernard Malamud was an American novelist and short story writer. Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Norman Mailer and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia →

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