"The war between being and nothingness is the……" — Norman Mailer
"The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war."
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160 Quotes by Norman Mailer
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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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