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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
"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?"
"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."
Explore more quotes by Norman Mailer
"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men."
"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."
"I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for."
"Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another."
"Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor."
"In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell."
"Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer."
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