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Norman Mailer

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Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American writer, journalist, and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II.

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Quotes from Norman Mailer

The fact is I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

—Norman Mailer

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

—Norman Mailer

There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

—Norman Mailer

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

—Norman Mailer

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

—Norman Mailer

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

—Norman Mailer

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

—Norman Mailer

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

—Norman Mailer

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

—Norman Mailer