Norman Mailer Quotes
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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
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There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
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Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.
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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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We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.
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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
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When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
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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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Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
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