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From Quotes by Norman Mailer
- We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in…
- Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.
- There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a…
- We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us…
- We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater…
- As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.
- One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs…
- The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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