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God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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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

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In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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

— 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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I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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