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Norman Mailer quotes about life

American Novelist January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007

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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. Norman Mailer
At the end of medicine is dope; at the end of life is death; at the end of man may be the Hell which arrives from the vanities of the mind. Norman Mailer
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for. Norman Mailer
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer quote: "There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one..."
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. Norman Mailer

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