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

—Norman Mailer

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About 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...

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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

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

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

—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

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

—Norman Mailer

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Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.

—Bertrand Russell

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People come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be.

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Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

—G. K. Chesterton

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