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The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.
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I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways.
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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
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So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.
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