"Great hope has no real footing unless one……" — Norman Mailer
"Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207"
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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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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
— Margaret Atwood
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The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and…
— Eric Alterman
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
— Heraclitus
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Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond…
— Thomas Gray
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His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand.…
— William S. Burroughs
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This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came…
— Janet Morris
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Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for…
— Samuel Adams
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
— Samuel Johnson
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Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction…
— Zhuangzi
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What doesn't bend must break, when dooms are apportioned and destiny takes the lead. As it will now, and as…
— Janet Morris
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