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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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The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?
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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 nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.
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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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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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I hate everything which is not in myself.
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Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
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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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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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