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The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.

Norman Mailer

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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.
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We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
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I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.
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I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.
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There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.
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