American - Novelist | January 31, 1923 - November 10, 2007
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
Norman Mailer
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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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Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
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There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
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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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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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Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
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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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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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Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
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