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I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.
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 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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There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
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I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.
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Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
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I hate everything which is not in myself.
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Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.
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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
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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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Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.
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...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.
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To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.
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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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Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.
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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`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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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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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
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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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The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.
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Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.
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