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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
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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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Every one of my books had killed me a little more.
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The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.
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The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.
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