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

- Norman Mailer
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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

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.

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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