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Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and where the person is less good. Writers are like that but don't admit it.
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...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.
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To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.
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God is a creator, not a law giver.
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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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We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.
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I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.
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No heart is so hard as the timid heart.
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Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity it's a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the greatest crimes ever committed were committed in bed. And no weapons were used.
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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
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For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.
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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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The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural catastrophe as never before. The century would create death, devastation and pollution as never before. Yet the century was now attached to the idea that man must take his conception of life out to the stars.
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On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.
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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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It all comes down to who does the dishes.
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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
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You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.
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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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One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.
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