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While I'm working on a book, I...

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.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Part of living, part of becomi...

Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can have a friend for whom you are genuinely happy when he or she has a success. That's tough. Very few people get to that point. With writers it's next to impossible. You can't really bless a writer who's as good as yourself.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

There's nothing glorious about...

There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Chicago was a town where nobod...

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

You can indulge your righteous...

You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

People move forward into the f...

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.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

A nation fights well in propor...

A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.

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Like all men who are Napoleoni...

Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.

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Madness is locked beneath. It ...

Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is thegrowth of madness denied.

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I had the idea that there were...

I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

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And so I ask, 'Would You agre...

And so I ask, 'Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?' But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, 'Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits.

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I would introduce myself if it...

I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I have tonight. For the moment, then, let me say that I am thinking of Sam Slovoda.

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The night before I left Las Ve...

The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.

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There is no greater impotence ...

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.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

There is probably no heterosex...

There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Along with all else, Sandman i...

Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

We sail across dominions barel...

We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.

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Crude thoughts and fierce forc...

Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.

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Cancer is the growth of madnes...

Cancer is the growth of madness denied.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

So the blind will lead the bli...

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

Norman Mailer 274 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....