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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.

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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.
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I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.
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Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.
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...never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile.
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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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The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
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The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
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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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We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.
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You have the right to speak your mind.
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The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.
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A high church for the true mediocre.
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Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.
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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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To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.
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God is a creator, not a law giver.
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