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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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So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.
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Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.
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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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No heart is so hard as the timid heart.
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So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.
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To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.
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...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
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Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.
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