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So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.
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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Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.
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Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were always the best and the strongest of cities, and our people were vital to the teeth. Knock them down eight times and they would get up with that look in the eye which suggests the fight has barely begun.
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The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
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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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Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.
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I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.
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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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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.
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There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.
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...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.
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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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On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.
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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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The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.
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The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.
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Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.
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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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Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.
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