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Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and 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 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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It all comes down to who does the dishes.
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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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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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...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.
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You have the right to speak your mind.
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Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.
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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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Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.
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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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Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.
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Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.
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When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.
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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
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Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.
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