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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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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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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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Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.
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Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.
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It all comes down to who does the dishes.
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Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.
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Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.
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What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?
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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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Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.
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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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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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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 only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.
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You have the right to speak your mind.
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