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“ 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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Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

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

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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.

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The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

~ Norman Mailer