We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked … - Norman Mailer

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We're wanting you to come to the place where you're beginning to offer your thought deliberately. Where you are guiding your thoughts on purpose, where you are the creator of your own experience. Because you are the manager of your own thought

Norman Mailer

We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living,. . . their touch was alien to nature. . . . [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.

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To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.

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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

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Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart

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

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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

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