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MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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You have the right to speak your mind.
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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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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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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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You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.
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Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.
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I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.
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To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.
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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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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
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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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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 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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It all comes down to who does the dishes.
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You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.
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Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.
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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
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Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.
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God is a creator, not a law giver.
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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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