American - Novelist | January 31, 1923 - November 10, 2007
Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.
Norman Mailer
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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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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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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
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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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I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
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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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