Norman Mailer Quotes
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
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I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.
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In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'
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You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.
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Talent comes with an individual name tag.
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There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s---loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.
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Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.
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Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
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When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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I can't explain my feelings, I love the run-up and the stadium here.
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But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the former, and in great measure from the latter. ... in short, I should wish to gain my bread from my writings.
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Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.
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Every time you are looking for love, and you're making yourself available for love, it may not come in the package that you had dreamed of. It might come in something completely different. You might've thought, "I'm going to be with a tall, dark, and handsome." or "I'm supposed to be with a model woman who looks like she can walk on the runways." But, it might be just a little curvy girl from Oakland!
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
