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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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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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When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.
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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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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
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Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.
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Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.
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No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.
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Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.
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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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A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.
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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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Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.
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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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To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.
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Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.
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Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.
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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
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A high church for the true mediocre.
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One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.
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Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.
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