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Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
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 art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.
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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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I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.
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Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.
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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
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A high church for the true mediocre.
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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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Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.
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