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Norman Mailer1923–2007

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

Norman Mailer on power

Armies of the Night (1968)

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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
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Mysteries are irritated by facts.
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
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What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2
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What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung1875–1961The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943), P. 97
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