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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."
"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."
"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."
"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."
"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."
"I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering."
Explore more quotes by Norman Mailer
"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."
"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men."
"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."
"With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance."
"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."
"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."
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