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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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. – 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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It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat. – Loren Eiseley, “The Innocent Fox,” The Star Thrower, 1978

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He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. – Alexander Pope

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Invent a past for the present. – Daniel Stern

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I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, theyre going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much. – Janet Evanovich

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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. – Albert Einstein

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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – John Locke

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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino

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