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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
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Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.
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What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?
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Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
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Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic San Francisco is a lady
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I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
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I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.
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We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions speak to one another.
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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
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When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.
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People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.
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It all comes down to who does the dishes.
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Every one of my books had killed me a little more.
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Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.
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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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Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.
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Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.
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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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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
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There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
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