Quote by Norman Mailer
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of

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

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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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There are four stages in a marriage. First theres the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. – Norman Mailer

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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. – Samuel Butler

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Bore — a person who talks when you wish him to listen. – Ambrose Bierce

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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. – Attributed to Goethe, by Huebsch

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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement… for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. – Max Beckmann

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A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. – English Proverb

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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. – George Bernard Shaw

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Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely. – Harlan Coben

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