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Norman Mailer Inspirational Quotes (148)

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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.
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The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
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MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.
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No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.
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I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.
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We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions speak to one another.
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There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
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I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.
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Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were always the best and the strongest of cities, and our people were vital to the teeth. Knock them down eight times and they would get up with that look in the eye which suggests the fight has barely begun.
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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
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Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.
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The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?
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When I read it [Tough Guys Don't Dance], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
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Every one of my books had killed me a little more.
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To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.
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Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.
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What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and where the person is less good. Writers are like that but don't admit it.
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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
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I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop.
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When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.
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You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.
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Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.
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When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.
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There`s a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.
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