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Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
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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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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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