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

-- Norman Mailer

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“When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon.”
“You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.”
“I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.”
“We learn by making mistakes. If you genuinely want to have a multifaceted career that takes you into multiple industries, then I think you have to be willing to fail.”
“The existence of such an [international Islamic] army rules out the superpowers' interference in disputes among Muslim countries.”

Source : "International Islamic Army". Ettela'at, Tehran, August 7, 1991.
“There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.”
“Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.”
“We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely an attempt to structure events for convenient accessibility. Consequently, we must exclude from our discussion as far as possible such misleading notions as "development" and "progress."”

Source : Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”

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