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Norman Mailer föddes den 31 januari 1923 - US writer
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 A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

 Alimony is the curse of the writing class

 Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

 Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

 Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

 He bears an unmistakable resemblance to a cornered rat

 Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

 I felt something shift to murder in me. I felt that I was an outlaw, a psychic outlaw, and I liked it.

 If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

 Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

 One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

 The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul

 The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation

 The platitude turned on its head is still a platitude

 The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.


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