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

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Theres a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements. – 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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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. – Chinese Proverb

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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. – George Bernard Shaw

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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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