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

—Norman Mailer

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

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

—Norman Mailer

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There is a well-worn adage that those who set out upon a great enterprise would do well to count the cost. I am not sure that this is always true. I think that some of the very greatest enterprises in this world have been carried out successfully simply because the people who undertook them did not count the cost; and I am much of the opinion that… the most instructive consideration for us is the cost of doing nothing.

—Thomas Henry Huxley

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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character… would you slow down? Or speed up?

—Chuck Palahniuk in Invisible Monsters

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What you get free costs too much.

—Jean Anouilh

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Free advice is worth the price.

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