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You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
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We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
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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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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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We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.
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I hate everything which is not in myself.
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I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
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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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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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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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There are these two kinds of patriotism. There's blind patriotism, unflagging patriotism. And then there's the patriotism that says I live in a democracy and it's very important for the health and the life of this democracy that it get better all the time, not get worse.
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You have the right to speak your mind.
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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
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I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.
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Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.
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Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.
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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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I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.
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There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
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