Mailer

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    There was that law of life so cruel and so just which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    He was a fool—a brilliant man and I loved his beard, and there was the mountain ax in his brain, and all the blood poured out, and he could not see the Mexican sun. Your people raised the ax, and the last blood of revolutionary mankind, his poor blood, ran into the carpet.
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)