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Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.
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I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.
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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
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What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.
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Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.
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Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.
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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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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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Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it comes to defending that tree against a highway, they will go for the highway.
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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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While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.
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No heart is so hard as the timid heart.
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You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
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I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.
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Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.
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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
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People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.
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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
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Every one of my books had killed me a little more.
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