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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

Norman Mailer

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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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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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As Kierkegaard was the first to suggest, we can never know where our prayers are likely to go nor from whom the answers will come. When we think we are nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.
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Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart
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I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.
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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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I've made an ass of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one.
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Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.
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Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.
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Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.
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What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.
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Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
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A high church for the true mediocre.
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Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.
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We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
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What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?
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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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Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.
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