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This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#before #crash #easier #i #stood

When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#badly #child #compete #cup #each

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#grasp #only #possess

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

#answer #back #because #coming #get

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

#available #beautiful #beautiful woman #heart #her

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

#bit #dying #every #existence #growing

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#blows #bullets #cell #each #experts

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

— Norman Mailer

#gain #given #honor #masculinity #small

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#else #grow #just #law #life

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#closest #come #ever #men #writing