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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. "

Norman Mailer

Think

God

Know

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. "

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

" Alimony is the curse of the writing class. "

" Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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Law

" 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. "