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I hate everything which is not in myself.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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...never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile.
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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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I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
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The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.
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Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.
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So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.
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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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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
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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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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
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Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it comes to defending that tree against a highway, they will go for the highway.
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Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.
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There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.
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To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.
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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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The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?
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The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.
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Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.
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