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Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him renown. His best-known work is widely considered to be The Executioner's Song (1979) winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Armies of the Night won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction and the National Book Award.

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

Eugenics, Level, Levels, Raise, Suffering

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Believe, Dance, Inspirational, Tough

The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.

Heart, Journey, Knowledge

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

Aesthetics, Brought, Coitus, Interruptus, Television

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Hands, Novelists, Perform, Shaky, Smart

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

Blood, Chicago, Cities, Forget, Picked

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

Book, Books, Killed, Littles

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

Eye, Hurricane, Smug, Sound, Stupid, Wind

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

Feelings, Likely, Literature, Movies, People, Reach

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

Answers, Devil, Nearest, Prayer, Prayers, Thinking

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

Cosmos, Grace, Long, Start

We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.

Across, Heart, Hearts, Past, Plow, Together

I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.

Art, Love, Make, People, Sours

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.

Desire, Lubricates, Prostitution, Secret, Soul

What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?

Becoming, Complex, Matter, Opposites, Polarity

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. . . . His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

Curiosity, Diminish, Passion, Sympathetic, Understanding

When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.

Believe, Insensate, Meaningful, Part, Shares, Wind

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

Ability, Experience, Honesty, Reader, Unexpected, Writing

Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.

Ambition, Courage, Men, Soothed, Wasteful

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

Action, History, Literature, Make, Men

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