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The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
Category: Boredom Author: 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.
Category: Conformity Author: Norman Mailer
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Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.
Category: Exercise Author: Norman Mailer
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Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.
Category: Hmmm Author: Norman Mailer
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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Category: Media and Journalism Author: 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.
Category: Writing Author: Norman Mailer
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