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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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I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind
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What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.
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There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
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