"There's that popular misconception of man as something……" — Norman Mailer
"There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God."
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160 Quotes by Norman Mailer
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- Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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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…
- At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do…
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- Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.