It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

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When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

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Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

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Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

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It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

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

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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Norman Mailer in Esquire (1960)
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The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

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I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

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The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

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