• One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

  Source: Dubins Lives p. 27.

  Bernard Malamud
  American novelist
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1. recaptured
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One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction. by : Bernard Malamud

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