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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
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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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Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.
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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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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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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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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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I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop.
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Cancer is the growth of madness denied.
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Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.
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Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.
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Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.
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You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.
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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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When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.
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Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.
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We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
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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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The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.
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Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.
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