Wit & Wisdom

From Bernard Malamud, James Fenimore Cooper, James Joyce, Mary McCarthy, Albert Einstein, Voltaire, Jerry Springer

“Life is a tragedy full of joy.”

Bernard Malamud, quoted in the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger

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