"I don't want to retire. I'm not that……" — Norman Mailer
"I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles"
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160 Quotes by Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer has 160 quotes on this site.
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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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More Crossword Quotes
This quote is filed under Crossword Quotes,
one of 40 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.
— Keith Preston
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Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically,…
— Dan Bern
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You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the…
— Annie Lennox
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It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back…
— Paul Muldoon
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Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it…
— Ashwin Sanghi
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Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys…
— Paul Desmond
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What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if…
— Nora Ephron
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I know that I am not the only person who is alone in the world. I know that others sorrow…
— Robert Goolrick
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Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode…
— Caroline Knapp
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper,…
— Laura Marling
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