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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.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.
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I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.
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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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Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
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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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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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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
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The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.
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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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No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.
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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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I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind
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One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.
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There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.
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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 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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Every one of my books had killed me a little more.
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I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.
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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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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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