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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Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body – it just wears it out. – Norman Mailer

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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent. – Abraham Flexner, Universities, 1930

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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity. – Bill Veeck

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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. – Walter Bagehot

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It is not well to make great changes in old age. – Charles Spurgeon

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Ive learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. – Sandra Bullock

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