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Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do 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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So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.
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Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it comes to defending that tree against a highway, they will go for the highway.
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