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Quote by Norman Mailer
Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal

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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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. – Norman Mailer

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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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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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And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk. – Bill Knott, “(End) of Summer (1966)” (Thanks, Laurie)

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Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of. – D.M. Thomas

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We are asleep with compasses in our hands. – W.S. Merwin

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My heaviness comes from the heights. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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