"Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if……" — Norman Mailer

"Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce."

— Norman Mailer

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160 Quotes by Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer has 160 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing…
In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the…
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
Boredom slays more of existence than war.
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative…
We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new…
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a…
At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do…
I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary…
Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

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More Affliction Quotes

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. — Abu Bakr
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested… — James A. Baldwin
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into… — Richard Cecil
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never… — Victor Hugo
What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when… — Unknown Author
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of… — John Climacus
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to… — Tryon Edwards
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. — John Bunyan
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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