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Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer
American Novelist
Born: Jan 31, 1923
Died: Nov 10, 2007
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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you. Norman Mailer
Beautiful You Woman Heart World Most Beautiful Men Beautiful Woman Living Highest Arm Most Prize Available Your Loyal Her
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. Norman Mailer
Suffering Socialism Higher Higher Level Function Level Raise
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. Norman Mailer
You Single Back Never Obsession Most Because Answer Coming Question Get Same Human Human Activity Keep Activity Wasteful
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. Norman Mailer
Man Vision Achieve Hero Will Devil Creation Would More Argue He Part Devils Contest His Ultimately Gods May Inhabit Certain Who Awakens
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. Norman Mailer
Impossible Mind Become Secret Ability Had Combinations Quick Maximum Hold Sanity Grasp
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. Norman Mailer
Art People Final Moral Exacerbate Purpose Even Consciousness Necessary
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. Norman Mailer
Democracy Tyranny Borders Only Undefined Until How How Far Go Line Discovers Modern Stopped Straight Straight Line Far Traveling Whose
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. Norman Mailer
Life Honor Men Destroy Tendency Masculinity Because Left Very American Little American Life American Men Certain
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. Norman Mailer
Living Every Bit More Retreating Always Existence Dying Little Little Bit Less Moment Growing
It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. Norman Mailer
History Men Make Which Sentiments Actions
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. Norman Mailer
Book Wince Write Read Which Ask Ever
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. Norman Mailer
Writing Men Books Come Closest Ever
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. Norman Mailer
You Trust People Will Few Unless America Few People Irreverent
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. Norman Mailer
Good Good And Evil Evil Minority Group Member Minority Group See Insignificant Both Marvelous Exceptional He Forced Himself Awful
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. Norman Mailer
Wise Giant Primitive Sophistication Hip Jungle
It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. Norman Mailer
Good Wife Latest Put Idea Anyway Your Novel Good Idea
Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it. Norman Mailer
You Better Dance Tough Believe Guys Had
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. Norman Mailer
People Wind Stupid Big White Live Incredibly Those Eye Hurricane Only Sound Smug Hear America Center Fortunate Who Serene
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. Norman Mailer
Horror New Size Century Twentieth Each Twentieth Century Event
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. Norman Mailer
Work Creative Think Bad About Something Spoils Tension Talk Root Act Creative Act Present
Alimony is the curse of the writing class. Norman Mailer
Class Writing Alimony Curse
Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another. Norman Mailer
Way Bit Some One-Way Another Always Motion Curious Suspect Just Just A Little Bit Depends Being Little Little Bit Growth
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. Norman Mailer
History Count Individuals Most Periods Revolutions
I hate everything which is not in myself. Norman Mailer
Myself Hate Everything Which
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. Norman Mailer
Man Natural Anxiety Role
We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil. Norman Mailer
God Will Devil Think Our Could Never Come Know Likely Answers Go Nor Prayers Just Where Certain Whom Nearest Assisting

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