"Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals……" — Norman Mailer
"Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most."
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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 count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be…
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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for…
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The…
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All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences,…
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
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It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work…
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the…
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Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one…
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There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is…
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