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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

#american life #american men #because #built-in #certain

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

#act #bad #creative #creative act #i

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

— Norman Mailer

#consciousness #even #exacerbate #final #intensify

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#chinese #climbing #columbus #down #enter

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen. ↗

— Maimonides

#books #consider #deceive #hesitate #his

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion. ↗

— Maimonides

#assert #assertion #bible #extent #founded

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree. ↗

— Maimonides

#cannot #degree #distance #each #every

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#complain #desires #despotism #discontented #his

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years. ↗

— John Major

#afghan #ago #back #britain #come

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. ↗

— John Major

#authentic #back #conservative #conventional #course