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Quotation by Henry Miller
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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
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Henry Miller (1891–1980), U.S. author. Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963).
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