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

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The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. – Norman Mailer

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Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. – Norman Mailer

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If you think you have it tough, read history books. – Bill Maher

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The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination. – Gaetano Salvemini, Historian and Scientist

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I dont believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. – Pablo Picasso

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History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? – Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey

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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. – Seneca

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We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers. – Joseph Chilton Pearce

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