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The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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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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You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.
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There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.
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The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.
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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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I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.
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Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
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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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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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Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.
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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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What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.
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There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
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Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.
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A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.
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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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