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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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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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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Boredom
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I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a skyscraper made of wood. – Norman Mailer

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Writing
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You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go. – Nikos Kazantzakis

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Hmmm

…and leave wishes to those foolish enough to make them. – Terri Guillemets

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Hmmm

I imagine that yes is the only living thing. – e.e. cummings

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Hmmm

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you’ll need right up to the day you die. – William Wiley

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Hmmm

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It is possible to regard Norman Mailer as one of the prices we pay for widespread literacy. – Richard Gilman, “Why Mailer Wants to be President,” in The New Republic, 1964 Fe

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Writing

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves. – William Graham Sumner

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Dreams

My mom wont let me buy high-fashion stuff unless its TK Maxx or a birthday occasion. – Chloe Moretz

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Birthday

I hate victims who respect their executioners. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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respect