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

—Norman Mailer

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

—Norman Mailer

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

—Norman Mailer

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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

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