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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 usually need a can of beer to prime me.
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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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You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways.
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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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Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.
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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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Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.
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I hate everything which is not in myself.
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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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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
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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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Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.
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One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
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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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Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.
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Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart
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To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.
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