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Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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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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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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...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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Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
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Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.
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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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Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.
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I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.
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If God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good. I am a disbeliever is the omnipotence of God because of the Holocaust. But for 35 years, I have been believing that He is doing the best he can.
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Every one of my books had killed me a little more.
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Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.
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Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.
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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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Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.
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You have the right to speak your mind.
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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
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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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