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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.

~Norman Mailer

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 31st, 1923

Died: November 10th, 2007

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