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Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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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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I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.
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Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.
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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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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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A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.
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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
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The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.
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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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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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The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
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Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
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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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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
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There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
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Every one of my books had killed me a little more.
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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
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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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It all comes down to who does the dishes.
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When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.
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