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In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

- Norman Mailer

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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

- Norman Mailer

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

- Norman Mailer

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

- Norman Mailer

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

- Norman Mailer

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

- Norman Mailer

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

- Norman Mailer

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