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Every one of my books had killed me a little more.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were always the best and the strongest of cities, and our people were vital to the teeth. Knock them down eight times and they would get up with that look in the eye which suggests the fight has barely begun.
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Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.
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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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Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.
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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 world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.
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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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We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.
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Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.
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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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When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.
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There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.
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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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People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.
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The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.
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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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We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions speak to one another.
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