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"Begin to see the violence around you, begin to see the violence within you."
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"Was there ever a war where only one side bled?"
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"He kills her in her own humor."
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"Do you know what I think?" Marcone said."You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him.""Yes."I drew my gun. "Okay."
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"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do."
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"As one of the motorbikes came towards me, I let a big heavy right go, and knocked the rider's head clean off his shoulders! Fucking hell, the guy's head was still in his helmet and it was clattering all the way down the road."
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"I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)"
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"To protect one's own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself."
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"There was nothing - and nothing - and then the car bumped up again. There was a muffled pop, the sound of a small pumpkin exploding in a microwave oven.Morris cut the wheel to the left and there was another bump as the Biscayne went back into the parking area. He looked in the mirror and saw that Curtis's head was gone."
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"We are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives."
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Explore more quotes by Norman Mailer

"We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil."
God

"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."
People

"In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent."
Trust

"Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most."
History

"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."
God

"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."
Violence

"Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another."
Growth

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

"I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind."
Ability

"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing."
Man
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