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Barry N. Malzberg Biography

Barry Nathaniel Malzberg (born July 24, 1939) is an American writer and editor, most often of science fiction and fantasy.

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There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.

Fifty, Given, Truth, Truth Is, Words

Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.

Banks, Coin, Coins, Realm, Rivers, Survival

Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it.

Able, Banality, Fundamental, Fundamentals, Vitality

Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.

Events, Everything, Facts, Motivation, Occurrence, Understanding

Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many of his colleagues to this condition. To surmise was not to conquer, of course; he was as helpless as ever but there was a dim liberation in seeing how he had been lied to, and he felt that at least he could take one thing from the terrible years through which he had come: he was free of self-delusion.

Conquer, Deception, Felt, Self, Surmised, Years

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Jackson Pearce

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Freddie Prinze, Jr.

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Franz Werfel

Richard Dedekind

Richard Dedekind

Ayrton Senna

Ayrton Senna

Petronius

Petronius

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Amy Van Dyken

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Daria Werbowy

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Mikhail Naimy

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Alan Hollinghurst

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Cody Simpson