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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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" God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. "

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" The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. "

" The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. "

" Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. "

" Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it. "

" 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. "

" Alimony is the curse of the writing class. "

" In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. "

" A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. "

" 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. "

" Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. "

" The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. "

" I hate everything which is not in myself. "

" Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. "

Norman Mailer

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" Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another. "

" 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. "

" Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. "

" I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. "

" In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell. "

" When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. "

" 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. "

" I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses. "

" Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. "

" The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. "

" 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. "

" Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. "

" 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. "