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The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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As Kierkegaard was the first to suggest, we can never know where our prayers are likely to go nor from whom the answers will come. When we think we are nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.
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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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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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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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You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.
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A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.
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