Norman Mailer

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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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

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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

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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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

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When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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