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A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.
Norman Mailer
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Norman Mailer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: January 31
Died: 2007
Died: November 10
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I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.
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I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.
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