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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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To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.
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I've made an ass of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one.
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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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Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that Nobody is any better than he ought to be.... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock.
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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
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To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.
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A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.
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A high church for the true mediocre.
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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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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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There are these two kinds of patriotism. There's blind patriotism, unflagging patriotism. And then there's the patriotism that says I live in a democracy and it's very important for the health and the life of this democracy that it get better all the time, not get worse.
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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
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You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.
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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
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What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?
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The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.
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When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.
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Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.
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Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
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Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.
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