Norman Mailer Quotes

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.

Norman Mailer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 31, 1923 - November 10, 2007

Topics

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Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel.

Jesmyn Ward

TravelOwnFavoriteBooksStill

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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I care a lot about Heart; I was there at the inception of Heart.

Ann Wilson

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The more Strategic Work you do, the more effective, productive, and joyful the Tactical Work becomes.

Michael Gerber

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Opening a business is going to be hard work, no matter what choices you make. If you decide to fall on your sword and just slog through all the work as an operator instead of an owner, then you take responsibility for the entire operation and the actions of the business.

Michael Gerber

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Donald Trump has shown no interest in working toward increasing the minimum wage, no interest in doing anything but immigrant baiting, no interest in doing anything but filling the swamp with a band of billionaires who are simply trying to help the wealthy.

Tom Perez

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

Robert Benchley

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Starting as a few bands of hunter-gatherers, humanity expanded the food resources afforded by the land a thousandfold through the development of agriculture.

Robert Zubrin

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I have always advised men to read.

Mary Harris Jones

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I am the oldest of three girls and the only one not named after one of my father's ex-girlfriends.

Lisa Jewell

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Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.

Chris Rock

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I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.

Boz Scaggs

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