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Only Quotes by Norman Mailer
- 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.
- If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.
- Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity; it's a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the greatest crimes ever…
- The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
- Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is the man who is not only a machine…
- The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.
- Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.
- 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…
- 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…
- The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture
- I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind
- Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.
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