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Norman Mailer Quotes
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Norman Mailer



Biography
Author Profession: Novelist
Nationality: American
Born: January 31, 1923
Died: November 10, 2007

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I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
Norman Mailer

I hate everything which is not in myself.
Norman Mailer

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
Norman Mailer

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

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

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

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

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Baby, Being, Between, Book, Child, Conceiving, Difference, Having, Having A Baby, Made, Television, Test, Tube, Writing
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Baby, Being, Between, Book, Child, Conceiving, Difference, Having, Made, Test, Tube, Writing
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