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God is a creator, not a law giver.
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 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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Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.
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Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.
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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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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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Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.
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There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.
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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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A high church for the true mediocre.
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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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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
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Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
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We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions speak to one another.
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I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind
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I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.
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I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
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The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.
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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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Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.
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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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