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"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."
"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
"The size of a fish does not determine its speed."
"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"
"Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children."
"Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever."
Explore more quotes by Norman Mailer
"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."
"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."
"Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another."
"America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind."
"The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you."
"There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce."
"I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses."
"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen."
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