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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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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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. – Albert Camus

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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. – Bernard Berenson, Notebook, 1892

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Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all the others, and if need be against all the others. – Romain Rolland

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To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color. – Toller Cranston

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Her eyes are homes of silent prayers. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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