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Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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As Kierkegaard was the first to suggest, we can never know where our prayers are likely to go nor from whom the answers will come. When we think we are nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.
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So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.
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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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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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The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.
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Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.
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People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.
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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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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
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There`s a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.
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I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.
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While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.
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I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously.
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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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