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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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.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.
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I felt something shift to murder in me. I felt that I was an outlaw, a psychic outlaw, and I liked it.
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'Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth.'
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Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.
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