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Norman Mailer

American

January 31, 1923

Novelist

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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

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I hate everything which is not in myself.

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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

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Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

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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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I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

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If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

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A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

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America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

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Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

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