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I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Norman Mailer

There is probably no sensitive heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

Norman Mailer

Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't a one of us doesn't need a crutch.

Norman Mailer

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

Norman Mailer

The time is soon coming, thinks Rusty, when fornication will be professional athletics, and everybody will watch the national eliminations on TV.

Norman Mailer

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

Norman Mailer

He got a corporation mind. He don't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.

Norman Mailer

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

Norman Mailer

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Norman Mailer

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

Norman Mailer

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Sad Quote

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Truth Quote

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

- Bob Marley

Wise Quote

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

- Mark Twain

Motivational Quote

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

- Audrey Hepburn

Love Quote

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

- Mother Teresa

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