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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.
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 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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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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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
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There`s a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.
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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
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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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I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop.
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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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There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.
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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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