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Norman Mailer Quotes: You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.
         

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.


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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.



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Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.



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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.



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Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.



America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.



I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.



Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.



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Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.





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