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I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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There are these two kinds of patriotism. There's blind patriotism, unflagging patriotism. And then there's the patriotism that says I live in a democracy and it's very important for the health and the life of this democracy that it get better all the time, not get worse.
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The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.
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A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.
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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
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I've made an ass of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one.
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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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Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it comes to defending that tree against a highway, they will go for the highway.
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Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.
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The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.
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I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously.
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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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It all comes down to who does the dishes.
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For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.
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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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To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.
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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
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You have the right to speak your mind.
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