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Norman Mailer

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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.
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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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I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.
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There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.
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Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.
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The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.
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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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Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart
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Even an evil man can have principles—he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.
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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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There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.
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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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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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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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I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
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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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Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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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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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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