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...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.
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 sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.
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We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
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