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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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When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.
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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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There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.
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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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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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We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
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Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind
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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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Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart
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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
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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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The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.
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I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways.
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I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.
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Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.
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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.
Norman Mailer
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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It all comes down to who does the dishes.
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Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.
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