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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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Norman Kingsley Mailer
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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
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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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One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
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...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.
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Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
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Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.
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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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Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.
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Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.
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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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God is a creator, not a law giver.
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The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural catastrophe as never before. The century would create death, devastation and pollution as never before. Yet the century was now attached to the idea that man must take his conception of life out to the stars.
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Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.
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The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.
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Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.
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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
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There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
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