"Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in……" — Norman Mailer
"Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write."
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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 Lifestyle Quotes
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Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and…
— Lance Armstrong
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Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't…
— Bruce Barton
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I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not…
— Halle Berry
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My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade…
— Ben Affleck
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I'm not a 9-to-5 woman who has the same kind of lifestyle for years on end. I couldn't do it.
— Christina Aguilera
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America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.
— Bill Bryson
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I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I…
— Sandra Bullock
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To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.
— Sandra Bullock
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Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and…
— Julie Burchill
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