Norman Mailer

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• Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

  “Hip, Hell, and the Navigator” in Western Review No. 23 (Winter 1959); republished in Conversations with Norman Mailer (1988) edited by J. Michael Lennon.

  • Life & Death

• We think of Marilyn who was every man’s love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.

  Marilyn (1973), Ch. 1

  • America
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• Mysteries are irritated by facts.

  Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

  • Facts

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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