"Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties,……" — Norman Mailer
"Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward."
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Norman Mailer
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160 Quotes by Norman Mailer
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We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
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One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing…
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In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the…
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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
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Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative…
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We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new…
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A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a…
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At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do…
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I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary…
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Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.
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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
— Clive Barker
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If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.
— Jane Campion
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We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only…
— Edward George, Baron George
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Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy…
— Prem Prakash
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To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.
— Paulo Coelho
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We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
— Winston Churchill
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Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be…
— Thomas Merton
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A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps -…
— Rajneesh
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The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the…
— Philip Zimbardo
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The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives…
— Rajneesh
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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible…
— Zhuangzi
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Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.
— Gregory S. Paul
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