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What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and where the person is less good. Writers are like that but don't admit it.
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 trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.
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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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You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.
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Every one of my books had killed me a little more.
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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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Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.
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...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.
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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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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
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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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I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.
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I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.
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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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No heart is so hard as the timid heart.
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People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.
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