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The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.
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...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.
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