I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, … - Norman Mailer

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Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality. . . and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

Norman Mailer

I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans. . . . I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

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To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.

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

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Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart

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

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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

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