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

Other quotes by Norman Mailer

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

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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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Hmmm

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous. – John Jay Chapman

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

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Criminals are never very amusing. Its because theyre failures. Those who make real money arent counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. – Orson Welles

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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. – William Hazlitt

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Imagination

I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun. – Guy Laliberte

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Travel

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government. – Grover Cleveland

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