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You have the right to speak your mind.

Norman Mailer

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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.
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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
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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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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.
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