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Quote by Norman Mailer
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. – Norman Mailer

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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. – Norman Mailer

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Conformity
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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. – Norman Mailer

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Media
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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. – Norman Mailer

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Minorities
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. – Chinua Achebe

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History

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. – Mark Twain

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History

No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt, Table Talk, 1822

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History

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. – Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

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History

Random Quotes

A memory lasts forever.
Never does it die.
True friends stay together.
And never say goodbye. – Anon.

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Friends

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. – Henry Miller

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Love

I dont think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity. – John Le Carre

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Blasphemy

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness. – Kevin Kelly

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Society