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

Other quotes by Norman Mailer

The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. – Norman Mailer

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Las Vegas
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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. – Norman Mailer

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Media
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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. – Norman Mailer

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The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you. – Nancy Astor

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Boredom

Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence. – Leo Stein

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Boredom

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom ones self to be bored. – Lady Bloomfield

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Boredom

A yawn is a silent shout. – G. K. Chesterton

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Boredom

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[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick. – Max Nordau, The Interpretation of History

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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. – Daisy Ashford

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