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Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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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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The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?
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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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What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and where the person is less good. Writers are like that but don't admit it.
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It all comes down to who does the dishes.
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Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity it's a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the greatest crimes ever committed were committed in bed. And no weapons were used.
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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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...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.
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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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Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.
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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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Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.
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The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.
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