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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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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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The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

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Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

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

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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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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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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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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 31st, 1923

Died: November 10th, 2007

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