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Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.
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Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.
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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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Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.
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What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?
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Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
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Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
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A high church for the true mediocre.
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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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It all comes down to who does the dishes.
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There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.
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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
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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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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
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The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.
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We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
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