We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.

Norman Mailer
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  1. Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

  2. Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

  3. The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

  4. Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

  5. Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.p.207

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