Quote by 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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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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There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. – Norman Mailer

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The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you. – Norman Mailer

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Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it. – Paul Vixie

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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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What we call human nature in actuality is human habit. – Jewel Kilcher, Pieces of You

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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. – Juan Ramon Jimenez

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